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Okay,
A) the suicide note in the novel was intense & impactful for me. It was affecting without melodrama IMO.
B) in the movie they see each other. Blurred underwater vision aside, it would be too dark.
Your Goldfinger comments I agree with fully though.
Good.
In the 60's, characters like Honey Ryder were novel and subversive. Not a lot of sexually-charge content existed, and people were a lot more traditional back then.
But now all sorts of mediums of entertainment are sexualized and it's commonplace. To where it's not original or provocative anymore. It's just a trope.
Interesting comment here. The QOS leading lady was not blond, and didn't sleep w/Bond. That was sort of refreshing, eh?
But you do you. At the end of day, we each are our own critic.
Batman & Robin is a masterpiece of hilarity. DAD is a masterpiece of not-taking-Bond-too-GDFing- seriously in the face of the soap opera crap that is NTTD...
Hahahahahah!!!!
Adaptation is not a photocopier. What works in one medium (books) does not necessarily work in another (film) — particularly when the movies are, you know, about an image. Of course you *show* things in a movie, that's how you get an emotional response out of the audience!
Well, there IS that....
"Here's to us."
Bond gets blown TF up.
Too far in either direction IMO....
Yeah, he lost me there.
Was OHMSS a soap opera then? Or the book CR was based on? Or the end of MR, where Gala turns out to be engaged to someone else? That’s exactly the sort of twist you see in the soaps. Who knows, if Fleming had lived then maybe he’d even have gone full Eastenders and had Bond and Kissy’s kid suddenly turn up on his doorstep. I don’t get why he was allowed to have Bond fall in love and things like that, but any original Bond stories that do it are instantly labelled melodramatic soap operas.
And anyway, Bond has always been hit and miss, and it’s always been a broad church of wildly different films. That wouldn’t change if EON sold it, and I think that variety keeps things interesting. Just wait and see if you enjoy the next reboot more.
I was just thinking....if NTTD was really as Fleming as you'd like it....Craig would be smoking a cigarette in every scene. Even when the bombs fall.
She said she really missed that glamorous side of Bond from the film and I totally get what she means. NTTD liked glamour and it hurt the film because it felt very ordinary. Bond should be grounded but the characters should be relatable but appear other worldly.
I think that's why everyone loved Paloma, not only was she sexy, charming and capable but she appeared to be enjoying herself
He should have lit one up as the missiles were coming down.
Part of the unfortunate reality of this is when you have a character shift into a role of "mother" — movies (usually) stop sexualizing them; sort of that Madonna/Whore thing at play. Can't cross the streams too much.
After Mathilde is revealed, Madeleine doesn't wear dresses (contrast this to before Mathilde is revealed where her costumes are dresses or a very tight top). Honestly a little surprised that *after* the reveal, they still had a scene of them [Bond/Swann] naked in bed together AND a pretty lengthy kiss. That kind of stuff usually doesn't happen with moms in movies!
That would have been so very badass lol.
Perhaps the next film should be called Missile 2 Da Face, as they were saying before. To be directed by Justin Lin.
MI is on a similar sort of release schedule to Bond isn’t it? Every three or four years. Sadly I think that’s probably all there’s an appetite for with these sorts of films nowadays. Spies don’t really hold the cultural capital that they used to, and I’m not sure the Cubby method of churning out Bond on a mission every two years would last long in a blockbuster landscape where there’s massively popular comic book films all year round. I think the reason Bond still does so well is that they’ve turned it into an event series.
And Craig wouldn’t have done five films if he didn’t like Bond. He hates the celebrity of it, he finds the physical side gruelling, he’s been injured making every single film, and it’s not like he needs the money anymore. But he still kept coming back and trying to find interesting things to do with it. Look at the shape he got himself in every time, and the creative involvement he pushed for. He wouldn’t have gone to those lengths if he didn’t care. Ignore the tabloids and watch the leaving speech he made to the crew, or watch him tear up on Graham Norton when he talks about leaving. He loved the role.
I'm very late I this thread, but I agree 100% @MrsAuralSects
Same here.
I would've thought my sarcasm was obvious, too. Obviously I don't believe Craig is a transvestite IRL. That pic is from a commercial he did a decade ago.
The thing that does surprise me a bit, is when you say that the EON Bond is pretty much over for you, or something along that line. I'm sure you'll agree that EON folks have managed to reshape Bond before. Bond is dead, long live Bond. A new 007 will step in, carte blanche. When he does, you'll be just as curious as me, don't you think? ;-)